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Bode, who is biracial and queer, hopes to follow her feature film debut with coming-of-age stories, horror projects and “more gay stuff,” she said with a laugh.

The director was finishing his second feature film and told Smerilli maybe they could collaborate on the next one.

He would go on to make his feature film debut in the 2011 Irish film Between the Canals.

This is Ruizpalacios’ fourth feature film in roughly a decade and feels like a big step forward, a move from being a promising talent to someone truly coming into their own as a storyteller.

Director Spike Jonze, who had some notoriety for his music videos and commercials, also made his feature film debut with “Malkovich.”